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The Chamber of Commerce wing of the republican party is throwing everything they can at Mr. Trump. Just this weekend it was Mafia ties, KKK sympathizer, and continued accusations about his tax returns. They are desperate to sink his campaign. Unlike Ross Perot, he cannot be intimidated to withdraw. All main media resources
( ABCNBCBSCNNFOX) are being deployed to attempt to somehow destroy his base of support. What the republican establishment cannot grasp, or is unwilling to grasp, is that the rank and file american is sick and tired of a broken 2 party system that only works for the lobbyists and benefactors. It does not matter whether the name is followed by an R or a D, same lies, same smoke and mirrors, same results. This is the last opportunity, in my opinion, to break this oligarchy that has developed in Washington. I wish the candidate was someone with more credibility than Mr. Trump, but he is what he is. With China and Mexico speaking out against him, I have to wonder; if he wins the majority of the super Tuesday states tomorrow, and goes on to win Florida and Ohio, to what level will the detractors go to to stop him?
 
Havard said:
Meg Whitman, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard who had an official role with Gov. Chris Christie’s now-suspended presidential campaign, called his endorsement of Trump, “an astonishing display of political opportunism.”
Whitman served in the role of National Finance Co-Chair for Christie’s campaign.

“Trump would take America on a dangerous journey. Christie knows all that and indicated as much many times publicly,” Whitman wrote in a statement.

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cnbc.com/2016/02/28/christie-campaigns-finance-co-chair-calls-on-donors-to-reject-trump.html
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I think Christie is kissing up to Trump hoping to be his VP, if Trump wins the nomination. They are friends you know! Two faced, as far as I’m concerned!! He is an even bigger disappointment to me now than before! God Bless, Memaw
 
queenofheartscv said:
So it turns out David Duke has NOT endorsed Trump. It’s all a lie made up by the media.

davidduke.com/dr-david-duke-the-zio-media-lies-i-have-not-endorsed-donald-trump/

Do you still stand on the side of the media?

If you read the above link, you might conclude that David Duke has more integrity than the media.
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The point isn’t whether he endorsed Trump or not. The point is when asked on National TV if he would denounce David Duke, KKK, and white Supremacy. The guy wouldn’t do it.

This isn’t a trick political question. It’s an easy question for any decent human being.

Imagine if Muslim said they needed to research ISIS first?

KKK is similar group they terrorized people. Caused huge amounts of pain, ill, and death.

There is something seriously wrong if CATHOLICS cannot see this disqualifies Trump.

*And Trump is establishment. *
 
Just so there is no confusion, David Duke is a former Grand Wizard of the KKK.

On Wedneday, February 24 he said this:
David Duke, a white nationalist and former Klu Klux Klan grand wizard, told his audience Wednesday that voting for anyone besides Donald Trump “is really treason to your heritage.”
“Voting for these people, voting against Donald Trump at this point, is really treason to your heritage,” Duke said on the David Duke Radio Program. BuzzFeed News first reported the comments.
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"I’m not saying I endorse everything about Trump. In fact, I haven’t formally endorsed him. But I do support his candidacy, and I support voting for him as a strategic action. I hope he does everything we hope he will do.”
The former Louisiana representative told listeners to start volunteering for Trump.
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Read more: politico.com/story/2016/02/david-duke-trump-219777#ixzz41ZEHrGay
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Unless this is a made up quote, it really shouldn’t be hard to say, “I will not except any endorsements from David Duke, or the KKK.” It shouldn’t be something to have to look into.

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bekalc said:
KKK is similar group they terrorized people. Caused huge amounts of pain, ill, and death.

There is something seriously wrong if CATHOLICS cannot see this disqualifies Trump.

*And Trump is establishment. *
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Don’t forget that the KKK was historically a hugely anti-Catholic organization.
 
Memaw said:
I think Christie is kissing up to Trump hoping to be his VP, if Trump wins the nomination. They are friends you know! Two faced, as far as I’m concerned!! He is an even bigger disappointment to me now than before! God Bless, Memaw
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I agree. Those of us who live in New York and New Jersey have been disappointed with Christie for quite some time, and not only due to the infamous George Washington Bridge scandal. His outspokenness has its appeal, I suppose, but he can also be brash and arrogant as well as, at times, warm and caring about the people he serves. As far as I am concerned, he and Trump are two peas in a pod and deserve each other.
 
It’s not the first time Trump claims he did not hear what was being said.
nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/29/donald-trump-blames-earpiece-for-declining-to-disavow-david-duke/
Donald Trump Blames Earpiece for Declining to Disavow David Duke
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Donald J. Trump said it was the earpiece he was using in a television interview with CNN, through a remote connection, as the reason he declined to disavow any support from the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke on Sunday.
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“I’m sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece they gave me and you could hardly hear what he was saying,” Mr. Trump said on the “Today” show on Monday, after about 24 hours of condemnation from Democrats and Republicans.
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Mr. Trump was seeking to quell a controversy kicked off by his comments a day earlier, which drew some of the most sustained criticism he has received from Republicans.
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In that interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” Mr. Trump declined to say he did not want the support of Mr. Duke, who is seen as an enormously toxic figure politically for his racial views.
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Mr. Trump told Mr. Tapper that he didn’t know Mr. Duke. But when he considered running for president as a third-party candidate in 2000, he declined to accept the support of the Reform Party, citing Mr. Duke’s involvement with the group as a reason. And he appeared to have no problem hearing the questions being posed.
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The flare-up over Mr. Duke, a former Louisiana lawmaker, comes just days before a series of conservative Southern state “Super Tuesday” primaries in which Mr. Trump is hoping for a round of victories that could give him a commanding delegate lead in his pursuit of the Republican nomination…
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In the “Today” show interview, Mr. Trump pointed out that he had disavowed Mr. Duke, briefly, on Friday at a news conference.
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“First of all he talked about David Duke and other groups,” Mr. Trump said, adding he didn’t know who the other groups were so he couldn’t comment.
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“I know who he is but I never met David Duke,” Mr. Trump said. “I disavowed David Duke a day before at a major press conference.”
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Another nothing story.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
“I am sorry I cannot hear the question properly we have a bad connection. This earpiece isn’t working” 🤷
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Read into it what ever one wants! 🤷

It’s an offbeat question to be asking about David Duke in a national interview. It probably does take someone by surprise.
 
bekalc said:
The point isn’t whether he endorsed Trump or not. The point is when asked on National TV if he would denounce David Duke, KKK, and white Supremacy. The guy wouldn’t do it.
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They were just talking about this on the news. Is it true that Trump later said it was all due to a bad hairpiece? What kind of excuse is that??
 
Peter_J said:
They were just talking about this on the news. Is it true that Trump later said it was all due to a bad hairpiece? What kind of excuse is that??
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It sounds like Trump shortly before the Jake Tapper interview disavowed David Duke to another reporter. How many times does he need to do that?
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Trump Disavows KKK, Duke: “How Many Times Do I Have To Continue To Disavow People?”**
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TRUMP:** I disavowed David Duke a day before at a major press conference, and I’m saying to myself, how many times do I have to continue to disavow people?**
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And the question was asked about David Duke and various groups. And I don’t know who the groups are. I said, would you do me a favor and tell me the groups? He was unable to tell me that.
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realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/29/trump_disavows_kkk_duke_how_many_times_do_i_have_to_continue_to_disavow_people.html

And Duke did not endorse Trump either.
 
Path_Finder said:
So, how many times is good enough to disavow someone? Does his not doing so the day before not count? :rolleyes:
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The PP used the phrase hairpiece. I was just letting him know that it was his earpiece, not his hairpiece. Unless the hairpiece was somehow blocking the earpiece, I don’t know.

Supposedly it’s real, so a hairpiece wasn’t involved. IDK.
 
Path_Finder said:
Trump disavowed Duke the day before apparently, they played that news clip.
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Well, I have to look at the group. I don’t know what group you’re talking about. You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. I’d have to look. If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong.
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If he disavowed Duke in 2000, what is this?

Or this?
Honestly, I don’t know David Duke. I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. I’m pretty sure I didn’t meet him. And I just don’t know anything about him.
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queenofheartscv said:
He has disavowed their endorsement now, at least twice. The media will keep asking and asking and asking until they get some kind of bombshell. Put yourself in that position and see if you can always please everyone.
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The media is trying to train him to start giving PC responses, hence the Pavlovian repetition.
 
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